IMPROVING THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF THE BUILDING ENVELOPE USING PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS

The overall objective of the project is to improve the living conditions of the local population, through welfare and the fight against poverty and social inequalities. The specific objective is to set up a pilot unit using local building materials, with low environmental impact, provided with organic materials with phase change to be able to study the improvement of the energy efficiency of residential and tertiary buildings. The valorization of local materials is a priority for this project. Clay bricks are the basic matrix into which organic PCMs made from biobased materials will be incorporated. One of the envisaged tracks is the use of MCP in the form of fatty acids extracted from the waste of pomace resulting from the transformation of the olive into oil, thus allowing the valorization and the treatment of these waste and consequently the protection of the environment.